Cooking utensil



No. 719,786. PATENTED'PEB; 3, 1903 P. J. & E. H. GATES. COOKING UTENSIL.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 10 1902.

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@ ATTORNEY PARKER-J. GATES, OF. WEST NEW BRIGHT ON,

To all whom it mdy concern.- I 7 1 PARKER J. GATES, re: siding at West New Brighton, in the county the following is The construction UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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of Richmond, and EUGENE H. "GATES, resid ing at Flushing, Queens county, in the State of New York, citizens of the United States, have jointly-invented certain new and useful Improvements inOooking Utensils, of which a specification; I V Thisinvention relates to the-class of utensils to be set on, the range main; and it has for its objects utensil especially welladapted for use onthe top of the range for baking potatoes and the like.

hot air is attained. It provides also a'chamber wherein the heat is substantially uniform at all points, and it'also provides access of the hot air equally to substantially all parts of the articlebeing baked.

In the accompanying drawings,.which illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Fig

ure 1 is a vertical mid-section of the utensil in the plane indicated by line win Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 is a plan of thesame' with the cover thrown open and'partlybr'oken away. Fig.

, 3 illustrates fa modifiedconstruction-0t the Normally the bottom 3 cover, and Fig. tis a perspective view of the its'objectwhen applied will be hereinafter explained.

On the body lis a cover'4, hinged to thebody at 5 and provided with a securing-latch 6, hinged to the body at 7. This late-h takes. over the margin of the cover, as seenin Fig. 1, and may be conveniently turned back with 5o-the finger when the coveris who raised.

The. cover' has a loophandle Ip the end the utensil with bothia I each side, or stove or over an open fire or. flame for baking purposes inthe provides aclos'ed cooking. chamber in which. continuous circulation of be left about its edges hot air.

and an interlining 14, of asbestos. may be s'et on eithervthe. upper or lower grid, 2 as occasion may require,

of thelbody is adoor toning device 9 andhinged atits lower edge so as' to. tnrn down: We prefer to provide door 9 and a cover4, as both are convenient for. certain kinds of baking; 'but'obv'iously provided witli a cover only and others with a door only.

' side, are secured upright strips 10, two! at V and-these are provided with supsporting-hooks 11 to receive and uphold one Secured to thestr-ips or more wire grid s'12Q 10, belowthelowest set of hooksll, is a sheetm'etal bathe-screen- 1'3, which is of' somewhat less dimensions than the body, so that the hot air may rise about its margins and enter the closedchamber of the utensil-above the screen or-shield. In fact, this screeni's placed down within the flared base, so that," although its AND EUGENE GATES, or

9, provided with a fa s someutensils may be a 0n the side walls of the body, inr dimensions may be nearly as great as that of y the upper part of the body, ample space will for the upward flow of The tray or pan (designated as a whole by the numeral 14:) consists, essentially, of two pa'ns 14 and 14", one nested'within the other,

- This pan- In it': is shown in Fig. 1 a removable grid 15 which may beof ordinary wire-gauze of coarse'mesh-say ofa half-inch mesh-'-'-bent at: the ends to form a;

support to elevate the grid above'the-bottom of the'pan. v p t. It is desirable for the proper deflection downward of the hot as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and these faces maybe formed in the cover itself; but the cover may be Hat on top, asshown in Fig. 3. and have a lining of tin-Plate or similar metal with inclined faces.

The leading purpose of our utensil is to apply the hot air or gases equally to all the outer surface of the article being cooked or baked. and to eflect this we so construct the utensil as to screen the lower side of articles,

where the heat is greatest, to a degree sulficient to equalize the temperature, and we provide an open-work support for the article,

so that it may not rest on a sheet of metal,-

air risingin, the utensil that the cover should have four inclined faces,

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which would not only exclude hot air from free access to its under side, but cause it to burn on the under side. When cooking overan open fire, agasflame, or an oil-burner, the removable sheetmetal bottom 3 is slipped on, or it maybe put on in cases where it is desirable that the prod- .ucts of combustion shall not enter the cooking-chamber of the utensil.

When baking in the part 13, it is sometimes desirable or convenient to leave the cover of the utensil closed and use the door in the end -for the insertion of the pan onto the grid or fi pp ifi- The baflie 13 will have by preference se' cured to it a sheet of asbestps,'13, andthis latter'may be on either the upper or lower surface of the metal sheet.

. We prefer to employ the fiared base 2, as it appears 'to gather in the heat from. the stove top; but our invention is not restfictedthereto. Fig. 5 illustrates a form "or construction of the utensil wherein theflared-base and the strips are omitted, these latter being more conveniences 'ot construction. Inthe con,-' struction of this Fig. 5 the door 9 is omitted and the. cover 4 alone employed. In lieu of a grid 12 and pan 14 there isa supportingplate 12, consisting of a sheet of metal with a superposed sheet of asbestos 12",-similar to the'bottom' of the pan 14. It will be seen that the sides of the body 1 are perpendicular.

, The characteristic feature ofour invention we believe to be the chamber closed-above 3. A clos and open only at the bottom, which will be closed in use by the stove-top', andthe baffle or screen in-the form of a fiat plate, not nec-' essarily having any elevated marginal rims or slides and so disposed as to occupy the central field ofthe open bottom, but elevated above the latter.

Having thus described our invention, we c1aim 1. A cooking utensil having a flared base,

the chamber in said uteusilbeing open only at the bottom, a bafiie-screen in the lower,

flared part of said chamber, and a'removable bottom-for said chamber, whereby the latter.

ting access to the-interior, and a support for the article to be cooked. p

In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names, this 5th day of'April, 1 902, in the :presence of two subscribing witnesses.

r PARKER J. GATES. EUGENE H. GATES.

Witnesses: t

- JOHN 'HoLznAmEa, v Cass. .H. KENDRICK. f 

